Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
ALAN KAYIn success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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